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miz [any, any]

@ miz @hexbear.net

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only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds

4d ago

Who's laughing now? China’s humanoid robots go from viral stumbles to kung fu flips in one year

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 4d ago

me. I'm laughing. 没有共产党，就没有新中国

4d ago

E Reader recommendations?

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 4d ago

hmm that XTeink is so tiny and $70 is a good price point

if I ever get to live somewhere with good public transit I would definitely get one of these

4d ago

E Reader recommendations?

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 4d ago

apparently I'm the only kobo user who doesn't know about koreader.

4d ago

Hongkongers in Nottinghamshire fear 'broken promise' on UK settlement

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Dancers reenact the ICE shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti through performance protest

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US military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats

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American freedom of speech! You're free to speak unless you're critical of data centers and you talk for longer than 3 minutes. In that case - you get arrested and taken away in cuffs.

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 4d ago

kinda what ICE is doing

5d ago

They don't have the makings of a valedictorian do they

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Economist | Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Here, then, is the problem with the magazine: readers are consistently given the impression, regardless of whether it is true, that unrestricted free market capitalism is a Thoroughly Good Thing, and that sensible and pragmatic British intellectuals have vouched for this position. The nuances are erased, reality is fudged, and The Economist helps its American readers pretend to have read books by telling them things that the books don’t actually say.

How The Economist Thinks | Current Affairs

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Economist | Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 5d ago

In the 1860s, The Economist stood nearly alone among liberal opinion in Britain in supporting the Confederacy against the Union, all in the name of access to cheap Southern “Blood Cotton” [...] and fear of higher tariffs if the North triumphed. “The Economist was unusual,” writes an historian of English public opinion at the time; “Other journals still regarded slavery as a greater evil than restrictive trade practices.”

from https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/economist-has-slavery-problem/

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Economist | Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets

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miz [any, any] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Liberal economics is not a science but based on bad philosophy and assumptions about human psychology, dreamt up by "economists" with no background in psychology nor based on any empirical research, which have never been demonstrated in practice. Not only aren't they demonstrated, but they build mathematical models on top of these assumptions, but if the assumptions are meaningless, all the models are meaningless.
If you point this out, they will tell you, "sure, these assumptions aren't literally true, but they're just approximate." But in any rigorous science, if you approximate something, you're expected to calculate your error bars, so you can have an idea of just how approximate it is. If you don't, then for all you know, the error bars can be so big it has no relation to the real world. No liberal economist can tell you any way to actually determine how inaccurate their assumptions are, so you end up with a lot of maths, but none of it points back to anything real.
Conveniently, though, their maths just so happen to always work out to prove the conclusions they started with: free markets are inherently good, state controls are inherently bad. They have never updated their theories after witnessing their complete failure in eastern Europe, they in fact try to rewrite history to pretend like it was state controls that destroyed Russia's economy and free market anarchy that saved China's, which, as this video shows, the most basic overview of the facts shows to be the exact opposite of what happened.